Books by Margo Berdeshevsky: from Sundress Publications, Glass Lyre Press, FC2, Sheep Meadow Press + Salmon Poetry!!

  Books by Margo Berdeshevsky: from Sundress Publications, Glass Lyre Press, 
FC2, Sheep Meadow Press + Salmon Poetry!!
 
      "A poet who wrestles with the diabolical complexity of the human heart"    


Her newest book is 

IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT 

from 

SALMON POETRY  

 

If the beautiful is what delights us, and the sublime is what leaves us awestruck and wanting to kneel, Margo Berdeshevky's poetry is both beautiful and sublime. From the naked hunger of the heart to the cosmic force of "that world none can see--" this poetry rises and rises, falls and rises, on a magnificent music that challenges death, defies our human cruelty, and is faithful. 

—Alicia Ostriker (Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, NY State Poet Laureate) 

 

“Margo Berdeshevsky’s It Is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat seems to leap up and declare a rhythmic homage to the world, and one is called to gaze into one’s own eyes and see patterns of the past and future — life and death. And when the speaker says, ‘It was one single arrow of passion, and Eros was good with it’ a unique voice pierces us.” —Yusef Komunyakaa  Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize

 


   Here is Margo reading one poem from "It is Still Beautiful To Hear The Heart Beat"
 

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from Sundress Publications: 
"Kneel Said The Night 
(a hybrid book in half-notes)" 
available now! 
to order it clic here: 
 

 
 

 

 PRAISE for "Kneel Said The Night"

 

Composed of lyric essays, line broken poems, revamped fairy tales, erotic myths, and histories clothed in see-through shifts, wearing Eau Sauvage men’s cologne, Kneel Said the Night: a hybrid book in half notes, is a lush, authoritative masterwork. This Red Riding Hood gathers flowers and details in her basket, and generates revivified archetypes—"menstrual-colored canary,” “full paunch moon”—that can only emerge from an imagination fed by solitude and desire (and Paris). “I’m the woman who asks how close is death, how near is God,” Berdeshevsky writes, and in this intimate, audacious collection, the answer is very close, and very, very near.

–Diane Seuss/author of frank:sonnets/ Pulitzer Prize recipient 
 

Margo Berdeshevsky’s ravishing originality and enchanting voice, which I have long admired, are on stunning display in her latest book. Kneel Said the Night is an unmitigated joy. —Robert Olen Butler/ Pulitzer Prize recipient  

 


Here is Margo reading one excerpt from "Kneel Said the Night" 
 
and here is one FAB review in the compulsive reader: 
"This writing is naked. The nakedness is part of its beauty, part of its terror." 

 
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And here: clic to see her poem 
selected by The Academy  of American Poets 
for poem-a-day 
 
 
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and now

from Glass Lyre Press
BEFORE THE DROUGHT 

her recent poetry collection 

 a book for the breaths and cries of our shared "now."  
  
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!! still available !!

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Praise for "BEFORE THE DROUGHT" 
Before the Drought is a lyric meditation on corporeal existence, suffused with atavistic spirit and set in historical as well as cosmic time , a work of radical suffering and human indifference but also sensual transport. The tutelary spirits of these poems are  the feminine principle, and a flock of messengers that include blue heron, ibis, phoenix, egret, and blood’s hummingbird. In the surround we find ourselves in the magical world of a floating balcony, and a field of cellos, but it is a world in peril, now and in the time to come, on the night of the Paris massacres and in a poisoned future . In the City of Light, Berdeshevsky writes poems commensurate with her vision, poems that know to ask How close is death, how near is God? Hers is a book to read at the precipice on which we stand.  — Carolyn Forché  
   

“Drought” (Middle English, from Old English drūgath, from drūgian) dates back to the twelfth century, and, as with many of our earliest words, articulates a primal human condition—in this case thirst, want, dearth. With the temporal, shape-shifting fluidity of myth, Before the Drought is both lambent with pre-Lapsarian plenitude and vexed by post-Lapsarian lack. The speaker in these poems—part transgressive nun, part revolutionary alchemist—confronts at every turn what it means to live in time, in a body (“how unexpectedly you age / . . . . My strutter, my ogre, my mirror-bitch brayer”), and nonetheless steadfastly to hold an abiding trust in the slaking, annealing replenishment of the broken-open anything—heart, body, sky, heavens.    — Lisa Russ Spaar 

Here, Margo Berdeshevsky offers us vast interiorities—sensuous, erotic, complexly feminine.  These poems may be distinguished for their musical intricacy and formal variation, but they are also profoundly moving, their speakers subsumed in memory, the constant presence of their bodies, the certainty of mortality, and the intrusive violence of the worlds they inhabit.  This is a marvelous, deeply humane collection—one I will return to with pleasure. — Kevin Prufer  


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++ !! : Vimeo  trailer reading from “BEFORE THE DROUGHT"
from Glass Lyre Press: 
https://vimeo.com/221705004     

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 !!!Link to ORDER 
"BEFORE the DROUGHT from Glass Lyre Press !!!


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 Listen here to an AUDIO PODCAST : 
Reading from "Before the Drought" + Interview! 
Poet's Cafe  for KPFK in Los Angeles: 

https://www.loispjones.com/2018/07/17/margo-berdeshevsky/
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LETTER FROM PARIS in March, 2019  from MARGO BERDESHEVSKY 

https://www.poetryinternationalonline.com/letter-from-paris-in-march-2019/


(a tribute to W.S. Merwin) 
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 Review in the Brooklyn Rail :
http://brooklynrail.org/2017/09/books/Margo-Berdeshevskys-Before-the-Drought

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and here: 

a link to Margo's website: 

http://margoberdeshevsky.com
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Still here and available: 
 
https://www.amazon.com/Margo-Berdeshevsky/e/B001JOWB6W
"Beautiful Soon Enough":
Fiction Collective Two's
American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick
Innovative Fiction Prize Published by the University of Alabama Press
2 great Reviews: 
http://tinyurl.com/otd8334 

 http://tinyurl.com/bphb7qt 
                                             

+ Still here ... + still available: 
https://www.amazon.com/Margo-Berdeshevsky/e/B001JOWB6W

"Between Soul and Stone": 

http://amazon.com/author/margoberdeshevsky
                                               
Review for "Between Soul & Stone":
http://pionline.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/review-of-between-soul-stone-by-margo-berdeshevsky/ 

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 Praise for
"Beautiful Soon Enough" :

"Margo Berdeshevsky is a mature poet and world citizen...writing with emotional power ... woven with extraordinary awareness of what is precisely not beautiful in human life. So MUCH verbal beauty, with the eternal quality of the tale or fable." MARILYN HACKER

"Margo Berdeshevsky understands the diabolical complexity of the human heart, and how eros is a form of intelligence as well as a drive. Writing with lyric accuracy and necessary forgiveness about the turmoils of love, she also declares the 8th Deadly Sin: the refusal of intense experience." SVEN BIRKERTS

"Margo Berdeshevsky’s "Beautiful Soon Enough" is a thrillingly cutting-edge work of photos and short short stories flowing together into an extended erotic dream that limns the inner lives of women deeply yearning for connection and authenticity. This is a splendid book by a fine poet turning into an equally fine fiction writer." ROBERT OLEN BUTLER


Link : to order "Beautiful Soon Enough"
from Amazon.com
Link: to order "Between Soul & Stone":

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**Podcast of launch reading @ Shakespeare and Company, Paris**

Margo Berdeshevsky reading from "Before the Drought"  
  https://shakespeareandcompany.com/podcast?playlist=504

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See Interview and reading with 
Margo Berdeshevsky 
                 filmed at Shakespeare and Company in Paris: 

Previous Reviews :

super  Review of "Beautiful Soon Enough" @ Necessary Fiction:  
 http://necessaryfiction.com/reviews/BeautifulSoonEnough 



2 more Readings on you tube:  

  http://tinyurl.com/d2wl9t4
 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b1hcFqL3U 

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"So MUCH verbal beauty with the eternal quality of the tale or fable."  
 

SEE MARGO'S WEBSITE HERE : 
http://margoberdeshevsky.com
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Author of : *Sundress Publications: " KNEEL SAID THE NIGHT (a hybrid book in half-notes)" _____ and ______ *Forthcoming from Salmon Poetry: "IT IS STILL BEAUTIFUL TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT"______ _____ Author as well of *BEFORE THE DROUGHT* (Glass Lyre Press) Finalist: THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES ______ * BEAUTIFUL SOON ENOUGH * Winner of Fiction Collective Two's American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize: a "thrillingly cutting-edge"* book of sensual short short stories with photographs by the author." (*Robert Olen Butler) _____ **************** & **************** ____ *BETWEEN SOUL and STONE* (Sheep Meadow Press) _______MARGO BERDESHEVSKY____ understands the diabolical complexity of the human heart, and how eros is a form of intelligence as well as a drive. Writing with lyric accuracy and necessary forgiveness about the turmoils of love, she also declares the 8th Deadly Sin: the refusal of intense experience. ” (*Sven Birkerts )

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